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Overview

Eric B. Ford is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, and Computational Mechanics. Other areas of study include Spectroscopy and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's body of work concentrates on topics such as Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; Astronomy and Astrophysical Research; Astro and Planetary Science; Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies; Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics; and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

Frequent co-authors include Suvrath Mahadevan, Jason T. Wright, Paul Robertson, Samuel Halverson, and Shubham Kanodia, reflecting a collaborative approach across multiple research projects.

Eric B. Ford has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astronomical Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Eric B. Ford are:

  • Atmosphere Origins for Exoplanet Sub-Neptunes, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Occurrence rates of planets orbiting M Stars: applying ABC to Kepler DR25, Gaia DR2, and 2MASS data, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Separating planetary reflex Doppler shifts from stellar variability in the wavelength domain, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Evidence for He i 10830 Å Absorption during the Transit of a Warm Neptune around the M-dwarf GJ 3470 with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Warm Neptune GJ 3470b Has a Polar Orbit, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Best Publications

  • Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results

    William J. Borucki;David Koch;Gibor Basri;Natalie Batalha

  • SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • SDSS-III: MASSIVE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS OF THE DISTANT UNIVERSE, THE MILKY WAY, AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler, III: Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data

    Natalie M. Batalha;Jason F. Rowe;Stephen T. Bryson;Thomas Barclay

  • Characteristics of planetary candidates observed by Kepler, II: Analysis of the first four months of data

    William J. Borucki;David G. Koch;Gibor Basri;Natalie Batalha

  • Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-type Stars from Kepler

    Andrew W. Howard;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Stephen T. Bryson;Jon M. Jenkins

  • Dynamical Instabilities and the Formation of Extrasolar Planetary Systems

    Frederic A. Rasio;Eric B. Ford

  • Characteristics of planetary candidates observed by Kepler. II. Analysis of the first four months of data

    William J. Borucki;David G. Koch;Gibor Basri;Natalie Batalha

  • Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. III. Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data

    Natalie M. Batalha;Natalie M. Batalha;Jason F. Rowe;Stephen T. Bryson;Thomas Barclay

  • Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-Type Stars from Kepler

    Andrew W. Howard;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Stephen T. Bryson;Jon M. Jenkins

  • Architecture of Kepler's Multi-transiting Systems: II. New investigations with twice as many candidates

    Daniel C. Fabrycky;Jack J. Lissauer;Darin Ragozzine;Jason F. Rowe

  • Dynamical Outcomes of Planet-Planet Scattering

    Sourav Chatterjee;Eric B. Ford;Eric B. Ford;Soko Matsumura;Frederic A. Rasio

  • Architecture and Dynamics of Kepler's Candidate Multiple Transiting Planet Systems

    Jack J. Lissauer;Darin Ragozzine;Daniel C. Fabrycky;Jason H. Steffen

  • Kepler-16: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet

    Laurance R. Doyle;Joshua A. Carter;Daniel C. Fabrycky;Robert W. Slawson

  • A closely packed system of low-mass, low-density planets transiting Kepler-11

    Jack J. Lissauer;Daniel C. Fabrycky;Eric B. Ford;William J. Borucki

  • Masses, Radii, and Orbits of Small Kepler Planets: The Transition from Gaseous to Rocky Planets

    Geoffrey W. Marcy;Howard Isaacson;Andrew W. Howard;Jason F. Rowe

  • An abundance of small exoplanets around stars with a wide range of metallicities

    Lars A. Buchhave;David W. Latham;Anders Johansen;Martin Bizzarro

  • Validation of Kepler's Multiple Planet Candidates. III: Light Curve Analysis & Announcement of Hundreds of New Multi-planet Systems

    Jason F. Rowe;Stephen T. Bryson;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Jack J. Lissauer

  • Characteristics of Kepler Planetary Candidates Based on the First Data Set: The Majority are Found to be Neptune-Size and Smaller

    William J. Borucki

  • Planet occurrence within 0.25AU of solar-type stars from Kepler

    Andrew W. Howard;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Stephen T. Bryson;Jon M. Jenkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason F. Rowe
Jason F. Rowe Bishop's University
Jon M. Jenkins
Jon M. Jenkins Ames Research Center
Jack J. Lissauer
Jack J. Lissauer Ames Research Center
Daniel C. Fabrycky
Daniel C. Fabrycky University of Chicago
Geoffrey W. Marcy
Geoffrey W. Marcy University of California, Berkeley
William J. Borucki
William J. Borucki Ames Research Center
Douglas A. Caldwell
Douglas A. Caldwell Ames Research Center
Lars A. Buchhave
Lars A. Buchhave Technical University of Denmark
David W. Latham
David W. Latham Harvard University
Matthew J. Holman
Matthew J. Holman Harvard University

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